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to give an oral or written account of in some detail
a novel that recounted an American soldier's adventures among the samurai warriors of 19th-century Japan
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Recent Examples of recount
Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Candidates undergoing an election recount can have a ballot-watcher of their choosing monitor the process, alongside other election officials.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
McConaughey also spoke about Greengrass casting his real mother, Kay McConaughey, for a role in the film before recounting how Levi became involved.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
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Verb
People hollowed out by 30 years of grief recount what happened in raw, wrenching detail.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Candidates undergoing an election recount can have a ballot-watcher of their choosing monitor the process, alongside other election officials.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
The singer defended Siwa and recounted her own experiences as a bisexual woman falling in love with a man after previously dismissing the idea.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
McConaughey also spoke about Greengrass casting his real mother, Kay McConaughey, for a role in the film before recounting how Levi became involved.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recount
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But the shift may be broader, as newsrooms both describe a cultural shift and, at least in some cases, embody it.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The panel studying those cases released a report last year describing how the state child welfare agency missed warning signs and failed to protect dozens of children from dying of the illicit drug.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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Congress had enacted byzantine eligibility requirements for disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits, forcing the agency to expend huge amounts of time and money running those programs.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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He was reminded that his career had been shaped by overcoming doubts and slights going back to high school, when he was offered the same amount of Division I football scholarships that were offered to the average sportswriter who covers him.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The cause of the accident was not immediately known, although the car appeared to have derailed, which a source from the Lisbon Firefighters Regiment told local media may have been caused by a loose cable leading to brake failure.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Figma added four new AI-native tools to its platform this quarter and told investors on the call to expect significant investments in AI going forward.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
4 Sep. 2025
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New Mexico’s defense has given up an average of 419 yards per game in 2025, a total of 95 yards more than the 324 UCLA’s offense has averaged.—
Data Skrive,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Cultural, Artistic and Musical Programming Advisory Council received a total of 48 applications from qualified groups for the 2026 budget cycle, according to the three-year awards report.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In 2022, the actor narrated a video for Joe Biden's inauguration anniversary, touting his administration's accomplishments.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Her audiobook was narrated by an AI version of her voice.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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The book functions as a set of nesting dolls, offering stories embedded in stories, a series of overlapping detours and evasions that ultimately coalesce as a vivid and coherent whole.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Germain McMicking—Neon Advertisement Together is a squishy-gross body-horror comedy about the ways longtime couples sometimes meld sensibilities so completely that one partner or the other may feel subsumed by the whole.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Acutis chronicled 164 such events from all over the world in his digital database.—
Lauren Costantino
September 6,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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The film also chronicles her feud with Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg has invested large sums of money into Meta.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Recount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recount. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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